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Find out whose purview these items are in? The Moscow Soviet? Which Commissariat? And verify by formal inquiry both with the Moscow Soviet and with the appropriate Commissariat*.

Lenin

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Dear Vladimir
Ilyich, Nadezhda
Konstantinovna told me that she will not go tomorrow. I request your instructions regarding exactly when you wish to go. If possible, it would be better around 11 o'clock. Dzerzhinsky and Semashko wanted to go. I will tell them**. — Vlad. Bonch-Bruevich

ON THE REORGANIZATION OF THE COUNCIL OF LABOR AND DEFENSE

DRAFT RESOLUTION OF THE ECONOMIC COMMISSION

December 1, 1920
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The SNK petitions [before] the All-Russian Central Executive Committee to establish:
1. The Council of Labor and Defense be replenished by the Commissar of Agriculture.
2. The Council of Labor and Defense be entrusted with discussing the division of its sessions into ordinary and economic ones.

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§ 3. LIMITS OF JURISDICTION:
(1) the unification of all the work of the economic Commissariats;
(2) the confirmation and realization of a single economic plan for the RSFSR;

* The directive was written by V. I. Lenin on a letter from V. D. Bonch-Bruevich, in which he reported that Moskvotorg was not releasing firewood for the sanitary-inspection posts at Moscow railway stations, which had been prepared for receiving detachments of demobilized Red Army units.

** This concerns an inspection tour by V. I. Lenin, F. E. Dzerzhinsky, and N. A. Semashko of the Moscow sanitary-inspection posts.

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(3) direct the work of the economic Commissariats in accordance with this plan and establish, when necessary, deviations from it;
(4) (new);
+ Do not create its own apparatus.

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RESOLUTION ON THE DRAFT REGULATIONS OF THE COUNCIL
OF LABOR AND DEFENSE

December 11, 1920
To the All-Russian Central Executive Committee
Approved in the Council of People's Commissars December 11, 1920*.
Chairman of the SNK
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

DRAFT*
At the moment of increasing strain in the struggle of the Soviet
Republic against world imperialism, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee formed on November 30, 1918, the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defense.
Fulfilling the task assigned to it, the Council of Defense unified the work of the military and other departments in the mobilization of the forces and resources of the country in the interests of defense.
The military situation in April 1920 made it possible for the Soviet Republic to proceed to economic construction, and the Council of Defense was faced with the task of the closest unification of work on the labor front and, in accordance with this, the Council

* The SNK resolution states: "Approve the draft, adding to the composition of the Council of Defense the People's Commissar of Labor. Submit it to the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee for presentation to the Congress of Soviets" (protocol no. 404, item 1[...]).

The draft regulations on the Council of Labor and Defense, submitted on behalf of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the SNK for consideration at the VIII Congress of Soviets, was approved by the Congress on December 29, 1920 ("Collection of Laws and Ordinances of the Workers' and Peasants' Government" no. 1, January 3, 1921).

** The draft regulations on the Council of Labor and Defense is printed according to the original, corrected by V. I. Lenin.